Friday, August 30, 2013

From the Files of the Nineveh PD

Life was uncomplicated for emissaries of the Assyrian Empire.
They weren’t burdened by conscience, or hindered by the need to make moral
distinctions. Their role was to extract tribute for the king in Nineveh,
destroy all potential resistance to his rule, and maintain order. To that end they
dispensed aggressive violence without pretense or pity, and didn’t flinch from targeting
women – including
expectant mothers.

At some point within the last decade or so, American police
adopted a modified version of the Assyrian model of law enforcement. This helps
to explain why it is now considered permissible for a police officer to assault
an uncooperative but non-violent pregnant woman.

Police claim that they had arrived at the house to
investigate a “disturbance” involving several people in the neighborhood. By
the time they arrived, the fight – assuming that one had taken place – had
dissipated. Rather than making sure nobody was hurt and then leaving, the
police claimed that “tumultuous behavior” justified their involvement.

That’s when Krull escalated the incident by assaulting
Brenda. As Krull threw her up against a vehicle, Brenda cried out, “Get off of
me, you’re going to kill my baby” just seconds before the officer punched the
woman in the back of the head and hurled her face-first to the ground. In the
video, the victim is heard moaning, “My baby, oh my baby” as the officer
continues his assault, kneeing her in the back and forcing her to put weight on
her stomach.

Rochester PD Chief James Sheppard defended the actions of
his trained

simian, praising
him for using “tremendous restraint.” He blamed Miss Hardaway for the
assault she suffered, and described the blow to the back of her head as a
“distractionary” strike. “When we receive resistance from an individual, we may
strike you in a way that changes your channel, so to speak,” the chief smugly
explained. “In a way that changes your resistance.”

And when this tactic fails to subdue a pregnant woman, the
Assyrian mercenaries under Sheppard’s supervision feel entitled to throw her
face-down onto a sidewalk.

Romengeno was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct
and a single count of resisting arrest. Miss Hardaway was booked on several
charges, including felonious assault on a law enforcement officer.

It’s worth
remembering that all of this was supposedly justified because the police were
dealing with “tumultuous behavior” – that is, the impermissible offense called “contempt
of cop.”

A pregnant mother and an elderly woman were collateral
victims in yet another episode involving “tumultuous” behavior. In April of
last year, three Rochester cops swarmed and beat an innocent 25-year-old man
named Jose Lugo, who was hospitalized after being subjected to “distractionary
strikes.”

Lugo was walking on a street near the home where he had
lived for several years when a Rochester police cruiser suddenly screeched to a
halt next to him and decanted three officers – Kevin Flanagan, Joel Hasper, and
Richard Doran – who seized the bemused young man and started to drag him away.

When Lugo asked why he was being abducted, the assailants
threw him to the ground, kicked him, beat him, and tasered him at least three
times.The thugscrum expanded to fifteen
as reinforcements arrived. Lugo’s aunt, Annette Velzquez, pleaded with the
officers to stop beating her nephew, then informed themthat she was going to
call Chief Sheppard, whom she had met while working in the local school
district. Backup officer Benjamin Mitchell responded by shoving Velazquez,
stealing her cell phone, pepper-spraying her, and arresting her. A pregnant
mother and an elderly mother were also attacked by Mitchell or his comrades.

While Lugo was in the hospital – where he was kept under
armed guard by the gang that had inflicted his injuries -- he was charged with “assaulting” the armed
bullies who had put him there.

This follows long-established procedure: Any
time a police officer goes “hands-on” with an innocent victim, the victim is
charged with a crime to consecrate the laying-on of hands as a ministration of
official justice, rather than an act of criminal violence. Lugo had to endure
six months of expensive and unnecessary legal harassment before
being acquitted of the spurious charges.

Raven Dozier of DeKalb County, Georgia was likewise charged
with a crime after
she and her then-unborn child were assaulted by a police officer.
Dozier, who was nine months pregnant, was present when police arrived to deal
with a domestic dispute between her brother and his girlfriend. She had
actually been urging her brother to cooperate with the officers – until the
point at which they threw him to the ground, attacked him with “distractionary
strikes,” and tasered him.

“He’s on the ground!” Dozier cried in horror. “You don’t
need to do that!”

Displaying the refinement that typifies those who follow his
loathsome profession, one of the officers snarled at Dozier to “Shut the f**k
up!” To punctuate that directive, Officer Jerad Wheeler strode up to the
sobbing and horrified woman and kicked her in the stomach with sufficient force
to open a door.

Dozier’s brother was dragged out of the house, and several
police conferred on the front porch. After one of them pointed out that they
had a problem because Wheeler had “kicked a pregnant woman,” another observed
that they had to “charge her with something.”

Raven Dozier's injuries.

A few minutes later, Dozier – who was recovering from the
assault – was approached by the on-scene supervisor, who in a voice of affected
concern said that the officers needed to take her photograph. He instructed her
to put on her shoes and follow him outside.

The instant Dozier crossed the
threshold of her home, Dozier was arrested for “obstruction” and taken away in
handcuffs to the DeKalb County Jail. The intake officer, who possessed some
residual decency, refused to book the victim. He demanded that Dozier be taken
to the hospital, where she passed a small issue of blood and amniotic fluid.

Her son, Levii, was born by way of an emergency C-section a
few weeks later. Doctors informed her that the kick to her abdomen had been
delivered with sufficient force to cause the child to defecate in utero – which
means that he had the sh*t kicked out of him by a police officer before he was
born.

Wheeler is a
police officer, which means he is trained to lie, given social permission to
lie, and does so without hesitation. In his official report of the incident,
Wheeler falsely claimed that he was dealing with an “aggressive” woman and that
he used “a front push kick to the abdomen, as [I] was taught to do at the
academy” – once again, as a “distractionary” strike. It was only after he
arrested this “aggressive” woman that he supposedly noticed her
condition. His potentially fatal act of criminal violence was ratified by
his superiors, who blithely stated that it was “within policy.” Police in Ocean
City, Maryland also “acted appropriately” when they tackled and assaulted
24-year-old Dalima
Ekundayo Ibironke Palmer, who was part of a group being investigated for –
what else? – “tumultuous” behavior at a local beach. Palmer
was nine months pregnant, a fact that was obvious to horrified onlookers
who pleaded with the police as they wrestled with the woman. Shortly after
being abducted, Palmer underwent an emergency c-section – but not before being
hit with four charges, including assault on a police officer.In at least two
separate cases, police have attacked pregnant women who went to them seeking
help.

Jacksonville,
Florida resident Melanie Williams, who was seven months pregnant, went into
premature labor and called 911. Bleeding and dizzy, Williams decided not to
wait for help and drove herself to the hospital, running a red light en route.

Valreca Redden
was tasered by police in Dayton, Ohio when she visited a suburban police
station to request that her one-year-old son be taken into protective custody.
After speaking briefly with the police, she changed her mind and said, “I’m
leaving.” Despite the fact that Redden wasn’t suspected of a crime, she was
told that she wasn’t free to leave.

Officer Michael
Wilmer grabbed the thirteen-month-old child with one arm and used the other to
shove the mother to the floor. A second officer materialized and attempted to
handcuff the screaming woman. When she resisted, he
applied a taser to the back of her neck. Redden was charged with “resisting
and obstructing”; as she was being checked into jail, one of the officers
discovered that she was visibly pregnant.

Seattle
resident Malaika
Brooks was seven months pregnant when she was stopped for speeding while
driving her 11-year-old son to school. When presented with the extortion note, Mrs.
Brooks refused to sign it, assuming that by doing so she would be admitting
guilt. The officer then attempted to arrest her for violating a “law” that
defines such a refusal as a “crime.” Not surprisingly, Mrs. Brooks didn’t allow
herself to be kidnaped without putting up as much resistance as possible.

Three officers
were dispatched to put down this intolerable act of defiance. Officer Juan
Ornelas twisted Brooks’ arm behind her back while Officer Donald Jones applied
a taser to her left thigh, then her left arm, and then to her neck. Mrs.
Brooks, who was left with permanent scars, was later found guilty of refusing
to sign the ticket –a misdemeanor charge – and acquitted of resisting arrest.

Once again: The
infraction that supposedly justified the use of electroshock torture was a misdemeanor.

Brooks filed a
lawsuit against the City of Seattle and its Police Department. The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the police had used excessive force. The
court also decided that the officers enjoyed limited immunity because in 2004,
when the incident occurred, it had not been clearly established that using a
taser in “drive-stun” mode against a very pregnant woman suspected of a traffic
violation constituted excessive force.

That ruling
provoked a paroxysm of theatrical outrage from police unions, and an appeal by
the officers who had attacked Brooks. In their petition
of certiorari to the US
Supreme Court (which was rejected), the officers whined that the ruling
“effectively strips officers of the authority to use any pain compliance technique
to control an actively resisting arrestee.”

In an
amicus brief filed on behalf of the officers, the Los Angeles County Police
Chiefs’ Association predicted that the limited exoneration granted to the thugs
who assaulted Brooks (and her unborn child) threatened the existence of “the
rule of law” itself.

“It won’t be
long before the word spreads throughout society’s criminal underground that the
Ninth Circuit hasn’t simply given them a `get out of jail free’ card, but a
`never have to go to jail in the first place’ card,” insisted the brief.

In other words:
Unless police have unrestricted “authority” to beat and torture pregnant women
suspected of trivial offenses, lawful order will collapse. One can easily
imagine similar claims being made by the revenue-gatherers and dispensers of
punitive violence who were employed by Sargon
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this is happening because of legislated rules (which rather confusingly get called "laws"), that give those in statist costume, special privileges over those who are not in statist costume.

additional legislated rules are not the answer to the corruption and perversity caused by legislated rules, they will only add to the cascade of problems.

There are "LAWS" which are the universal principals which allow us to interact as peaceful individuals, and we can discover these principals. English common law, the customary parts of Roman Law, the customary Brehon law of Ireland, and the Somali Xeer are all examples of decentralized customary law systems which (imperfectly) approximate to Natural Law.

rule of law and justice, are completely and totally opposite to "might is right"

all are subject to a true rule of law, there can be no special privileges, no exceptions

any claim of special privilege or of a monopoly in interpretation and administration is an assertion of "might is right", it is the polar opposite of justice.

The interpretation of King Canute, ordering the incoming tide back, and getting his feet wet - which I like best, is the one which has him demonstrating to his sychophants that all people, even kings, are subject to the eternal laws of the universe, and must respect and work within them.__________________Will, excellent* and very disturbing piece

Greg, comparing the actions of these police to Assyrians is misplaced. Who they really resemble and are actually descended from are the cruel and vicious Romans, who had no qualms about crucifying Jesus, the most gentle and innocent man that ever walked his earth.

I wonder if you read what Jesus told the Jews of his day regarding the men of Nineveh on the day of judgement.

This society and its Government are cruel, heartless and Vicious, exactly like the Roman Empire.

I have no brief for the Roman Empire, but I should point out that under Roman law it was impermissible to bind (that is, handcuff) a citizen unless he had been convicted of a criminal offense. Rome was, to that extent, less cruel and authoritarian than the one ruling us, which expects innocent people to submit with docility to an injury no Roman citizen would countenance.

It's also worth noting that the Assyrians had perfected crucifixion long before the practice was taken up by the Romans.

I did a little bit of martial arts (and I see you list martial arts as one of your interests Will). I was told that a strike to the lower part of the back of someone's skull often resulted in unconsciousness, and any head strike could result in concussion and all of the possible follow on problems.

I'm pretty terrible at remembering who did what in a fight, even (much to the frustration of my teachers) when a technique is being demonstrated slowly. It just tends to blurr together.

So ironically, if I chanced upon a cop being given a dose of his own medicine down some back alley, I'd already make a really crappy witness, and that's without any feelings of reciprocity or omerto (Italian for "no snitchin")creeping in.